Sr Specialist Agile Coach

Experience Level : 11yrs to 16years only

• Deliver hands-on coaching of individual teams in all aspects of Scrum and Kanban - daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, limiting WIP, etc.
• Be a consultant as needed and work with the clients in product roadmap activities and translate the client vision into an actionable roadmap in terms of features and release schedule for the teams.
• Coach the scrum master, product owner, team, and leadership as appropriate
• Conduct trainings and workshops as per the requirement of the teams
• Be with the team / customer on the floor and guide them in the transformation
• As needed, collaborate with other function / departments to understand the best practices and adopt in his / her team
• Interact directly with software and operations teams to mentor and guide them on the mechanics of Lean and Agile methods to achieve optimal team efficiency.
• Collaborate within the Agile Practice and lend support to organizational initiatives
• Implement metrics framework to track value creation through Agile adoption
• Expose our technology teams to the latest innovative thinking and ideas from the Agile community to increase agility, using lean, scrum, kanban, and other agile thinking Qualifications
• Overall 12 years+ of IT experience with 5 or more years of experience as agile coach
• Must have experience in using scaled agile framework (SAFe), Scrum, Kanban, DAD or LeSS
• Experience in conducting workshops, retrospectives, assessments, building relationships between multiple stakeholders and team members
• Agile coaching certification such as -SPC, ICP ACC, PSM 3
• SM / PO / DevOps certification
• Experience in handholding PO, Scrum Master and stake holders during the transformation
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
• Excellent communication, organization, and time management skills
• Nice to have knowledge about TDD, ATDD, BDD, CI / CD and XP
• Track record of implementing agile techniques in different work cultures and environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desired Tools Experience : (Or equivalent) Jira, ADO, Leankit, Planview, PowerBI